April 1936

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The following events occurred in April 1936:

April 1, 1936 (Wednesday)

  • Germany offered a 19-point peace proposal to the other Locarno signatories. None of the points included Germany withdrawing any troops from the Rhineland.
  • Austria reintroduced conscription, in violation of the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
  • Britain assured France and Belgium of British support in the event of war with Germany.
  • The Cordele–Greensboro tornado outbreak killed at least 44 people over this day and the next.
  • The Italian bombing of Harar was discussed in the British House of Commons. Hugh Dalton of the Labour Party asked Foreign Minister Anthony Eden if he was aware "that British public opinion is increasingly stirred by these horrible atrocities which are being perpetrated, and when are His Majesty's Government going to take any further step to end it, at least by refusing to supply British oil to these murderous airmen?" Eden replied that the government was just as anxious "to bring this war, and the miserable suffering consequent upon it, to an end."
  • John Winthrop Fowler of New York City, a junior at Princeton University, was fatally injured when he fell about 250 feet (76 m) onto rocks while hiking off Mount Washington after skiing in Tuckerman Ravine. Fowler's skiing companion, McKim Daingerfield of Baltimore, Maryland, also fell but survived.

April 2, 1936 (Thursday)

  • Germany suspended the export of coal to Italy as a goodwill gesture to Britain.
  • Saudi Arabia and Iraq signed a treaty of non-aggression and Arab brotherhood.
  • Austria and Czechoslovakia signed a trade agreement.

April 3, 1936 (Friday)

  • Germany sent Britain a point-blank refusal to promise not to fortify the Rhineland.
  • The British government indicated that it would again apply pressure to impose an oil embargo against Italy unless it ceased its hostilities in Ethiopia, due to the strength of the evidence Britain now had that the Italians were using poison gas.
  • Nazi Germany banned Jews from working as veterinarians.
  • The shortest pro boxing match in history took place in New Haven, Connecticut when Al Carr knocked out Lew Massey in 10 seconds. This record was equalled in 1946 but not broken until 1984.
  • Died: Richard Hauptmann, 36, German-born carpenter convicted of murder in the Lindbergh kidnapping (executed by electric chair)

April 4, 1936 (Saturday)

April 5, 1936 (Sunday)

April 6, 1936 (Monday)

April 7, 1936 (Tuesday)

  • Spanish parliament voted President Niceto Alcalá-Zamora out of office by a vote of 238 to 5 after the Socialists brought a motion against him claiming he had acted illegally in dissolving the last parliament. It was the first time Spanish parliament had ever voted a president out of office.
  • A Trans Continental and Western Air passenger plane crashed during a fog in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, killing 13 of 15 aboard.
  • Died: Marilyn Miller, 37, American stage dancer, singer and actress

April 8, 1936 (Wednesday)

  • France countered Germany's peace proposal with its own plan, which included the creation of an international army working through the League of Nations.
  • The Soviet Union and Mongolia signed a treaty of mutual assistance to counter Japan's growing power in the Far East.

April 9, 1936 (Thursday)

April 10, 1936 (Friday)

April 11, 1936 (Saturday)

April 12, 1936 (Sunday)

April 13, 1936 (Monday)

April 14, 1936 (Tuesday)

April 15, 1936 (Wednesday)

April 16, 1936 (Thursday)

  • The Italian government ordered its citizens to stop requesting permission to adopt Ethiopian babies.

April 17, 1936 (Friday)

April 18, 1936 (Saturday)

April 19, 1936 (Sunday)

  • Baldur von Schirach said that 90 percent of young Germans were enrolled in the Hitler Youth. He appealed to parents of the remaining 10 percent to enroll their children as well, warning that special laws would be passed if they did not.

April 20, 1936 (Monday)

  • Before a military parade celebrating Hitler's 47th birthday, General Werner von Blomberg was promoted to the rank of Generalfeldmarschall.
  • The German cruiser Emden began a controversial 10-day goodwill visit to the city of Baltimore, Maryland, sponsored by local German-American groups. Over 2,000 people marched to protest the cruiser's arrival, but thousands of other Baltimoreans would wait for hours to take tours of the ship during its stay.
  • Ellison "Tarzan" Brown won the Boston Marathon.

April 21, 1936 (Tuesday)

April 22, 1936 (Wednesday)

  • Germany announced that Eckener Avenue in Berlin, named after the Zeppelin commander Hugo Eckener, would be renamed Adolf Hitler Street. Eckener had fallen out of favour with the Nazi regime after he declined to release a statement of support for Hitler ahead of the March 29 elections.
  • Born: Glen Campbell, country musician, in Delight, Arkansas (d. 2017)

April 23, 1936 (Thursday)

April 24, 1936 (Friday)

  • Adolf Hitler formally opened three NS-Ordensburgen (National Socialist Order Castles), elite military schools where future Nazi leaders were to be trained for three years.
  • Hitler gave a belated birthday amnesty to minor offenders who had been fined small amounts or sentenced to prison terms not exceeding one month.
  • The musical comedy-drama film Captain January starring Shirley Temple was released.
  • Born: Glen Hobbie, baseball player, in Witt, Illinois (d. 2013); Jill Ireland, actress and singer, in London, England (d. 1990)

April 25, 1936 (Saturday)

April 26, 1936 (Sunday)

  • Legislative elections were held in France, with run-off elections to be held the following week. The left-wing coalition known as the Popular Front did even better than expected and looked poised to take power.
  • The final Italian drive on the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, immortalized in Fascist propaganda as the March of the Iron Will, began.
  • Died: Tammany Young, 49, American stage and film actor

April 27, 1936 (Monday)

  • An Italian plane dropped leaflets on Addis Ababa threatening to bomb and destroy the city if the advance on the Ethiopian capital met any resistance.
  • Hitler appointed Hermann Göring as Commissioner of Raw Materials and Foreign Currencies.
  • Joseph Bowers made the first escape attempt from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. A tower guard shot him and he fell from a chain link fence to his death.
  • Died: Joseph Bowers, 39, American criminal (shot)

April 28, 1936 (Tuesday)

April 29, 1936 (Wednesday)

April 30, 1936 (Thursday)

  • Italian troops occupied Degehabur.
  • The British government announced plans to construct 38 new warships.
  • Died: A. E. Housman, 77, English classical scholar and poet; Oran Pape, 32, Iowa State Patrolman and former Green Bay Packers running back (murdered in line of duty)

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